Saint Joseph Catholic Church
Saint Joseph Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 1107 Martin Luther King Drive in Ville Platte, LA 70586. It is one of 45 churches in Ville Platte, and one of 4 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
1107 Martin Luther King Drive, Ville Platte, LA, 70586Phone: (337) 363-1051 · Website: https://www.stjosephvp.com/
Saint Joseph Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 578 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Louisiana — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Joseph Catholic Church
Within about a mile of this church, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than half of the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 56.6% (38.3–75.0%)
- Obesity: 52.8%
- Food Insecurity: 46.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 41.5%
- Poverty Rate: 37.2% (25.0–49.3%)
- Housing Insecurity: 31.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.6%
- Diabetes: 25.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.8%
- Unemployment: 17.5% (9.4–25.5%)
- Social Isolation: 38.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 34.3%
- Depression: 26.9%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.3% (7.0–19.6%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Saint Joseph Catholic Church
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- Lilly of the Valley Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Paul Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Disciples Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Living Word Catherdal PBGA — 0.3 mi away
- St John Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Ninth Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Zion Hill Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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- Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church — 8.3 mi away in Chataignier, LA
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